Pat McCrory

Patrick Lloyd "Pat" McCrory (17 October 1956-) was Governor of North Carolina from 5 January 2013, succeeding Bev Perdue and preceding Roy Cooper.

Biography
Patrick Lloyd McCrory was born on 17 October 1956 in Columbus, Ohio, and his family moved to North Carolina as a child. McCrory worked with Duke Energy for 28 years, and he was elected Mayor of Charlotte as a Republican on 7 December 1995, serving until 2009. In 2009, he failed in his first gubernatorial bid, but he won the 2012 election, being sworn into office on 5 January 2013. McCrory was a rabid conservative, passing a law that forbade transgenders from using the bathrooms of their gender identities, instead forcing them to use bathrooms matching the gender on their birth certificate; this was one of the most homophobic laws passed in the United States in the 21st century. The government and several people sued him, hoping to prove that the law was unconstitutional, while McCrory sued his accusers in hopes of proving that the law was constitutional. In 2016, he was narrowly defeated for reelection by US Democratic Party candidate Roy Cooper, and he pursued legal action against Cooper, claiming that the election was the result of gerrymandering.